Life Cycle

Sun baked brown soil of the earth.
Silence in its respite.
Resting, waiting’¦
Seasons passing, snow melting.
Soaking up the essence of the planet,
Storing up richness.
Waiting’¦

Rumbling.
Silence is broken.
Steel tines pushing dirt into rows.
A seed, spinning, falling.
Now nestled in a bed of brown.
Darkness closes’¦
The promise sleeps.

Rain, blowing, silence.
Green tendrils shoving, moving, growing.
Light at last.
Reaching for the sky,
Giving birth to sheathed ears of yellow pleasure.
Grinding, slashing, rumbling once again.
Pulling, tearing, spinning.
Monsters of metallic green mowing.
Wheels moving, gold spiraling, darkness again.  

Sun baked brown soil of the earth.
Silence in its respite.
Resting, waiting’¦ For the cycle to begin again.

The corn is being harvested. The farmers have driven their huge tractors into the fields to reap the corn that they have waited for all year long. Yes, they have worked hard for it, but God has brought the increase. ‘He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the labor of man, so that he may bring forth food from the earth.’ ~ Psalm 104:14